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Commonspirit Oregon

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 91% of COMMONSPIRIT OREGON’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 10 grants below total $1,962,723 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,020,994 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $58,271 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $114k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $134k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.7M
$33,570
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UMPQUA COMMUNITY COLLEGE$1,000,000
MERCY FOUNDATION$709,216
DOUGLAS COUNTY CANCER SERVICES$84,167
UMPQUA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC$50,000
TRUTH INITIATIVE FOUNDATION$33,570
EXPLORE ENGAGE ENJOY$30,500
HIV ALLIANCE INC$30,000
WINSTON CHRISTIAN CHURCH$10,000
DOUGLAS COUNTY OF OREGON$10,000
FRIENDLY KITCHEN$5,270
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YMCA OF DOUGLAS COUNTY: $25k → 17%BATTERED PERSONS ADVOCACY INC: $6k → 17%BATTERED PERSONS ADVOCACY INC: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.8M · 10 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
16

Total granted

$6.8M
$414k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-21%
+37%

Still filing today

80%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • MF
    MERCY FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $6.1M · revenue +25% · 43% of their budget
  • DC
    DOUGLAS COUNTY CANCER SERVICES
    4× · 2021–2025 · $101k · revenue +273% · 34% of their budget
  • TF
    THE FRIENDLY KITCHEN
    3× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +113%

Funded once

  • TU
    Thrive Umpquagraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +31%
  • UV
    UMPQUA VALLEY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2020 · $60k · 40% of their budget
  • Oregon State University Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -5%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Douglas Public Health Network

The primary purpose of the organization is to improve the health status of individuals living in douglas county, oregon.

Health
2
United Community Action Network

Creating solutions to poverty. improving lives in our community.

Human Services
3
Penobscot Community Health Center

Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission…

Health
4
Careoregon Inc

To inspire and partner to create quality and equity in individual and community health.

Health
5
Cascade Aids Project

We promote well-being and advance equity by providing inclusive health and wellness services for lgbtq+ people, people affected by hiv, and all those seeking compassionate care.

Health
6
Rural Idaho & Mountain West Primary Care
Health
7
Prineville Downtown Association

Economic development of rural Oregon towns

Community Improvement
8
Riverside Community Health Foundation

To improve the health and well being of the community by providing health education and outreach programs as well as grants to non-profit organizations, schools, and government agencies.

Health
9
The Unity Hospital of Rochester

See schedule oto make a positive difference in the lives and health status of individuals in the city of rochester, ny and western monroe county. we will educate our community, our providers, and future health care professionals in order…

Health
10
Providence Health & Services - Oregon

As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.

Health
11
United Memorial Medical Center

United memorial medical center is the only acute care hospital in genesee county, with 131 licensed acute care beds that provide the necessary healthcare services to a regional population of approximately 138,000 residents and operates the…

Health
12
The Oregon Community Foundation Trust

The oregon community foundation trust is a supporting organization of the oregon community foundation (ocf). the trust makes grants that further the mission of ocf which is to improve the lives of all oregonians through the power of…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Umpqua Community Health Center and the most unlike its peers is Roseburg Senior Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%9%<5yr13%4%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr19%26%20–35yr12%30%35–55yr17%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%2%<5yr13%0%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr19%5%20–35yr12%89%35–55yr17%1%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
11%
344/3,093

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
11/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MERCY FOUNDATION INC — $6,142,391 · OtherMERCY FOUNDATION INCUMPQUA COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $1,000,000 · OtherUMPQUA COMMUNITY COLLEGE+18 more — $432,265 · Other+18 moreUMPQUA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP INC — $241,000 · Community ImprovementTRUTH INITIATIVE FOUNDATION — $85,719 · HealthUMPQUA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — $50,000 · HealthEXPLORE ENGAGE ENJOY — $30,500 · HealthOREGON BUSINESS COUNCIL CHARITABLE INSTITUTE — $105,000 · EducationOregon State University Foundation — $50,118 · EducationROSEBURG HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $8,000 · EducationThrive Umpqua — $100,000 · Public BenefitROSEBURG SENIOR CENTER — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DOUGLAS COUNTY — $25,000 · Human ServicesPEACE AT HOME ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $11,600 · Human Services
Other$7,574,656Community Improvement$241,000Health$166,219Education$163,118Public Benefit$100,000Youth Development$50,000Human Services$36,600

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMERCY FOUNDATION INC — $6,142,391 over 9y, 43% of budgetUMPQUA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP INC — $241,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetOREGON BUSINESS COUNCIL CHARITABLE INSTITUTE — $105,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetDOUGLAS COUNTY CANCER SERVICES — $101,317 over 4y, 34% of budgetThrive Umpqua — $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTRUTH INITIATIVE FOUNDATION — $85,719 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUMPQUA VALLEY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $60,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetOregon State University Foundation — $50,118 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSEBURG SENIOR CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetUMPQUA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIV ALLIANCE — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DOUGLAS COUNTY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FRIENDLY KITCHEN — $19,270 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetROSEBURG AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $17,590 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetROSEBURG HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $7,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMYRTLE CREEK VOLUNTEER FIREMANS ASSOCIAT — $6,300 over 1y, 9.7% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Ford Family Found…The Oregon Community …The Roundhouse Founda…The Autzen FoundationBriggs Loosley Founda…Hunt C Giles Char - M…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Ford Family FoundationOR28.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Family Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Briggs Loosley Foundation · Hunt C Giles Char - Main · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Commonspirit Oregon funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 20%
  • Hiv Alliance — 54% of income from government
  • Umpqua Community Health Center — 20% of income from government
  • Thrive Umpqua — 19% of income from government
  • Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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